Mysterious Skype transactions on my Paypal account
There’s been lots of talk of the recent problems Skype has been having. It seems they had some serious downtime and had to restrict all user access.
I noticed last night that though I was signed into Skype it was impossible to make myself “online”. The person I was trying to call at the time had the same problem. We thought nothing of it and I went out for the evening.
Right after leaving the house I got two email sent to my Blackberry from PayPal saying that I had just made two payments of €28.75 for Skype credit. These payments sure weren’t initiated by me. I called my credit card company and sure enough they had been charged to my card. No extra credit on my Skype account either!
I’ve contacted Skype but no reply so far. Not quite sure what to do about it now, I hadn’t realised till I read Techmeme a few minutes ago that there was even a big Skype palava going on.
I haven’t heard of this happening to anyone else, but it certainly doesn’t inspire me with confidence. Needless to say I changed all relevant passwords.